APS
31st APS Annual Convention · 2019
Emotional Arousal and Group Context Socially Tune Perceptions of Efficacy and Interpersonal Neural Synchrony during Collective Rituals
- Philip Cho
Yonsei University - Nicolas Escoffier
National University of Singapore - Yinan Mao
National University of Singapore - April Ching
Western Sydney University - Christopher Green
Wayne State University - Jonathan Jong
Coventry University - Harvey Whitehouse
University of Oxford
Abstract
Religious believers in group and individual settings rated the perceived efficacy of spirit-medium rituals. Arousal predicted increased ratings of efficacy, marked by suppressed alpha and beta power. Individual setting increased within-participant PLV in alpha and beta bands, while group setting enhanced between-participant theta PLV and socially-tuned perceptions of ritual efficacy.
Religion
